Dating in the News
Dating is work!
Arranged marriages have not always been the preserve of the Muslim world: Christians in the West once practiced this tradition, and Orthodox Jews today have dating habits that do not diverge so much from these conservative ways. …
Quarter of men prefer dating co-workers of lower position in office. Newstrack India
London, July 31 (ANI): A new survey has found that a quarter of men prefer dating co-workers, who are in a lower position to them in the office. The results of AskMen’s 2011 Great Male Survey showed that the majority, 56 percent, would sleep with a …
Men offer money to date women on controversial website. AsiaOne
A US dating website created by a Singaporean-born entrepreneur has drawn the ire of many for its …
Ask Ashley: Mysteriously missing. New York Post
Say you were dating someone who you really liked and she came to you and said, “I don’t know what it is about him, but something’s off. I just don’t like him.” You’d probably say, “He’s not your boyfriend! Get over it.” It’s really not your place to …
Nix neediness now to up odds of bonding with Bart. The Coloradoan
DEAR ABBY: I’m a 47-year-old woman who started dating “Bart” about three weeks ago. We had gotten off to a great start. We talk easily, we’re comfortable with each other and we seem to share similar values. Last week, Bart’s mom passed away, …
We’re all breaking the sex law. Times LIVE
“I let my kid start a little gentle dating when she was 14. ” To which I say: Don’t delude yourself that you’re in control! Many of you will never know exactly when your child starts fooling around. Dating happens in the shadows of teen and …
Dating in the News
Young adult dating trend slows road to marriage. Reuters
Young adults are slowing the road to marriage with “stayover relationships,” a dating trend that allows them to enjoy committed relationships without living together, new research shows. A study from the University of Missouri-Columbia revealed that as …
Ellie: Don’t let pressure push you into marriage. Toronto Star By Ellie Advice Columnist Q.
I’ve been dating someone for three years. Originally we were just good friends and developed into dating. Even though I know she’ll make a great wife and mother, I don’t feel love and excitement to marry her. …
Olivia Wilde’s Dating Story And Nude Scene. allvoices By sanain
Hollywood’s emerging actress Olivia Wilde, in her recent interview, shared that she finds new methods of dating very unappealing. The 27- year-old actress recently came out of a very long relationship and therefore impresses that jumping back …
Pakistani Dad Guns Down 6 Daughters Over Suspected Dating. News One
Arif Mubashir, 40, shot the teen-aged girls after his son told him that they were dating boys who attend a nearby college in Faisalabad. Mushabir unregrettably admitted to police that he had killed his daughters because they were both “without honour. …
How to Set Up the Perfect Online Dating Profile. Gizmodo
Why not try online dating? We pulled our team of experts together to guide you. Online dating might seem scary, anxiety-inducing, embarrassing, or complicated. Sometimes it is. But it doesn’t have to be. I’ve stormed the beaches and talked to the …
5 Dating “Sharks” To Avoid Falling Prey To. The Frisky (blog)
Here are five dating “sharks” to avoid falling prey to. How To Identify Them: It’s tricky! These sharks are excellent at camouflage, and able to look and act exactly like a single-person. Often only the sharp eye of an acquaintance will be able to …
Inside Match.com It’s all about the algorithm. Slate Magazine
On a hazy Monday in June, I came to meet Mandy Ginsberg, the president of Match.com US, the world’s largest online dating site. Petite, preppy and freckled, with long brown hair, Ginsberg was wearing sandals, tight black jeans and a loose blouse. …
6 Ways To Tell That You’re The Rebound. RedEye Chicago (blog)
However, if the person you’re dating is displaying any of the following 6 qualities, you might have cause for suspicion. Is it two weeks in and you’ve met their parents? Are they throwing around words like “forever” in the first four days? …
Things you should know before dating a journalist. Albany Times Union (blog)
When I saw this story today — the five things you should know before dating a journalist — I nodded throughout the piece (well, except for the zoning laws/politics part — I’m terrible when it comes to those topics). I even said “yes” out loud, …
Friday’s Best Conversation Topics
This week has topped the last by miles, I have to tell you. Could real life really be this freaky? A Casey Anthony wax mask sells on Ebay for $999,999.00 and she’s offered half a million to pose nude for Hustler magazine. Ugh. I’m happy to share better conversation topics from the past week and here they are:
- Nadya Suleman was drugged! The latest twist to the most repugnant story of the decade is Octomom saying she was drugged when she consented to have the 12 embyos implanted. Sure. Right. LIAR!
- “I had a headache but wasn’t sure why.” Oslo blast victim returns to work with a 12″wooden spike in her head. From chin to protruding through top of her skull. Dedicated to her job or in shock? With pictures.
- You’re going to drink THAT? Here are some of the double-dare shooters making the rounds at popular nightspots. Sorry, I’m not drinking a Prairie Oyster or a Cement Mixer. With recipes.
- Everyone wants to be a hacker, at times. And show off their newly learned prowess by hacking wifi networks, maybe even imitaing a real cell phone tower. All in the name of fun, of course. Read this article and start your next hobby. I, of course, have already started building my UAV spy plane. Includes video and link to the DIY instruction page.
Dating in the News
Olivia Wilde says she finds modern dating difficult
Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter
After breaking off a long-term relationship, it is always hard to jump back into the dating game. And that’s exactly how Cowboys & Aliens star Olivia Wilde feels after splitting with her husband of seven years. …
How dating evolved through the years
The Independent
By Amy Loudon Whether matchmaking soul mates, facilitating marriages or simply starting two strangers off on the right path, online dating is jaw-droppingly brilliant in that it taps into something people do every day – meet other people speculatively …
Attitudes about dating changing in this dour economy
San Jose Mercury News
Online dating is still going strong, but expectations are changing — men and women are relaxing their standards on a potential mate’s job status. Joel Koosed, director of the Bay Area-based The Meeting Game Salon, which hosts evenings of conversation …
Survey: Phoenix Best in Country for Dating Scene
MyFox Phoenix
Rent.com calls our dating scene here in the valley both “exhilarating and posh.” Seattle came in second, Austin, Texas third, followed by Denver, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles and Vegas, and New York and San Jose round out the list.
About Town: Online Dating
The New Age Online
As a single girl on the dating scene, going out and meeting people or the right person is rather daunting. You plan a night out with your girlfriends, and usually it’s not a last-minute decision. The date is decided, the restaurant and the club for a …
The Where And When Of Post-Divorce Dating
Huffington Post (blog)
When you get divorced, the world of dating can be daunting and a bit scary. You haven’t fished in that pond for years and you now have children that you also have to think about. There are some universal questions that come up when dating as a …
7 Bad Dating Tips I Learned from My Xbox 360
Kotaku
Now I’m passing these pointers of passion, all delivered in actual Xbox 360 dating-advice video games, on to you. Catch her off guard with your opening line. A man walks into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting alone. …
Is Internet Dating Destroying Love?
AlterNet
Dating websites distort the very core of interpersonal relations and turn love into a consumer product. Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. The internet is changing the way society communicates, processes information and …
A New Twist On International Dating
WebWire (press release)
While a lot of men dream of being with an exotic beauty, the task of finding foreign brides is nothing short of cumbersome given the hundreds of sites dedicated to international dating. Matters are further compounded by the fact that not every online …
Online Dating: SingleEastCobb.com
Patch.com
Surprising facts about this dating website that is advertised by roadside signs across Northeast and East Cobb. By Susan Becker Leisha Murphy and her twin sister Lisa Lyngos. SingleAtlanta Facebook If you’ve driven through Northeast Cobb you’ve likely …
A Minor Flaw
Slate Magazine
I’m dating a man who was charged with soliciting a teen for sex; I wish I’d never discovered this! By Emily YoffePosted Thursday, July 28, 2011, at 7:10 AM ET Got a burning question for Prudie? She’ll be online at Washingtonpost.com to chat with …
This Week’s Best Conversation Topics
Is the wacky weather causing all of this wacky news? All I can say is “don’t borrow a friend’s phone… ever!”
- One in five people drop their phones in the toilet. Sorry, no stats on how many of those people know how to dry out a phone and be able to keep using it or they just replace it under warranty using some weird water-explanation. (Note: iPhones can detect submersion and will “call home” to say the warranty has been voided. It’s true.)
- Fake high-end computer stores. We’ve all be inundated with stories of fake goods being sold, ladies handbags, high priced footwear, you name it, if it’s high priced it’s faked and sold. China, however, has outdone all of us, both in suspected fakery and now in complete top to bottom fraudulent stores. Yes, this is a story about entire Apple stores being opened up in China, complete with imitated furnishings and even unknowing (and possibly un-geeky) sales staff.
Positivity: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
I usually start my Monday’s post by complaining about Mondays, truly the most hated day of the week (with Hump Day a distant second!) But today let’s embrace Monday.
Just look at all of the positives:
- a new week brings new opportunities
- the chance to start the week off right by not calling in sick for a three day weekend
- catch up with friends at work and what they did over the weekend
- earn one more day’s pay
- finish the work you dogged out on Friday
Mondays have all kind of positivity around them don’t they?
Ths week, start off with a fresh headline for your online personal ad too, try this:
“Open the door, let me in, let’s have some fun together!”
Have a great day!
How To Improve Your Profile: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
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Many dating services provide you with some feedback such as who has visited your profile and when. If you’re not getting messages from these visitors it’s because they’re not certain you’re a good match for them.
Read their profile and try to figure out why. Everyone has some commn traits, but do these visitors get put off by something these saw or read? Don’t immediately dismiss them as not compatible, you have work to do yet.
Put on your detective hat and read their profile carefully, then go back and read your own profile again. Measure the questions you both answered against the answers you both gave. What is it that stands out that would keep the two of you apart? (During this phase of your “investigation” don’t thnk of the other person’s physical appearance, we’re looking deeper than that.)
Read the other person’s “About Me” section carefully, are there any aspects that you like about them? What stands out as a direct conflict in what you wrote in your “About Me” answers?
This will give you a direction of writing style and information to post about yourself to improve your profile as you investigate carefully the people that stopped by to read your profile but didn’t contact you.
Do this with every person that didn’t contact you but stopped by for a look and soon you’ll have fixed up your profile and be a top receiver of messages and more.
For your headline to use in your personal ad, try this today:
“I am a lot deeper than my About Me answers, let’s chat!”
Have a great day!
Romantic Poetry: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
“I have seen your face, it seems, my whole life. I wake and I sleep with the image of you beginning and ending my day.”
The beginnings of romantic poetry will send shivers up and down the spine of any person that allows their inner feelings to have a life and been shown, instead of being held down and admonished by your consciousness for even trying to cause a ripple on the surface of your emotional being.
“Let the inner voice be heard and open your heart to the true possibilities of love.”
Real people, human people, do not hide from the feelings of love, they do not cower in the darkness at the edge of the bright, warm pool of light that is the glow of love.
With sex all around you, love appears rarely and is even harder to hold onto. I urge you to hold onto love for it is fleeting, retreating from the darkness of the shallow days of your life.
For your dating ad headline today why not use this suggestion to get some attention:
“I will hold onto you, Love, until my last breath.”
Have a great day!
Friday’s Best Conversation Topics
You can read and read but until you can speak intelligently no one will ever know if you’re smart or stupid. And if you’re stupid it’s best to stay silent. Read these articles, my selections as the best conversational news stories from the past week, and sound intelligent when it’s your turn to speak.
- US Embassy in Syria set upon by “thugs” – In this day and age, with our technology and the free flow of information, how does a government that has lost it’s “legitimacy” continue beating and killing it’s citizens? Aim a satellite over the country, broadcast freely the illegal actions of government forces and allow the people to have a voice in their own future, a voice that is heard by billions around the world, not just neighbors in the streets.
- Two sick days you can save up. If I knew I could have been a teacher and my union would demand these perks for my job… well, it’d be a whole different me, wouldn’t it? Two sick days a month you could save up, five paid professional days a year, summers off, or extra pay to teach summer school… the list literally goes on and on.
- “We will kill for oil” is one among other statements quoted by Libyan government officials reported this week. And i think they will kill and die for their oil. Sadly they will not do the same for life, liberty or countrymen. At what time will the rest of the world stand up to, and put an end to, this war?
- Pentagon loses large in cyber-attack. Yes, there is justification for enhanced computer networks because if the government cannot protect our information who will? The Pentagon operates more than 15,000 computer networks and 7 million computers in dozens of countries. The Pentagon operates more than 15,000 computer networks and 7 million computers in dozens of countries.
I QUIT - ADAM F--K You
- How to quit your crappy job (picture). After working 22 days straight and being denied the 23rd day off, which happened to be the 4th of July, a KFC/Taco Bell employee announces he’s quitting, with style.
Your Dating Success: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
An online dating tip that will get you more responses to your profile than you ever thought possible.
Success with online dating is not only relative to your expectations but depends greatly, I know you’ll agree, on the connections and Real-World dates that result from your online dating adventure.
You have to begin with completing as much of your online profile that is asked of you, empty answers will get you less results, that is a certainty.
But aside from that, it’s your “essay question” answer that will create a lot of interest in the type of women (or men) that you want to meet. While it’s meant to allow yourself great latitude to talk about yourself you should follow these two rules:
1) Don’t go overboard when talking about yourself, mentioning deep seated beliefs that could start an arguement don’t belong here, i.e., keep away from religion, politics and current events that polarize people in their own beliefs.
2) Write this section as if you were talking to a stranger, a very attractive stranger, as though you were stuck in an elevator for several hours with them. This extended forced close-quarter arrangement usually allows people to reveal much about themselves without searching for an argument. Intimate but safe are the usual conversations in such circumstances, aim for this approach as you write about yourself.
Now, the online dating tip I mentioned at the start:
Use the photo gallery features of your dating service to it’s best advantage, that is, take pictures of yourself (and only yourself) in easily recognized local places, enjoying yourself. Let’s say that it’s a popular restaurant, have a picture taken with the most popular dish placed in front of you. For public places be in front of landmarks, etc.
The magic of these types of photos in your photo gallery is that an immediate connection is made when you are photographed in places that the reader of your profile can identify with. Maybe they’ve been there before, maybe they’ve always wanted to go there. They will connect with you through these images and be more inclined to make contact with you.
For your personal ad headline, try this today:
“I’m a person of the world, but not worldly.”
Have a great day!
When Followed: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
I know what to do. Really, I do.
At least, I know what to tell you to do. For me to know what I should do is a little harder, the window to view events in isn’t as large.
I know all the steps, I understand all the routines, I can tell anyone, any time, all the right things to do, and my explainations not only make sense but they work when followed.
When followed. A key phrase in this day and age: “Always read the label to determine if this dating service is right for you.” LOL
For your personal ad headline today, post this:
“Save some for me, I have some learning still to do.”
Have a great day!
